Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.